Unit Plan

Description of the unit goals, objectives, national content standards, and connection to KMS science curriculum.

Sample Student Worksheets

Classification Bingo

Animal Meiosis

Heredity Lab: Passing of Traits from Grandparents to Grandchildren

Beautiful Baby

Bishop Museum Field Trip (KWL/Scavenger Hunt)

Genetic Variation

Creating a Pedigree

Family Trait Pedigree Project

Future Baby Project

Various Activities Taken from the California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom Web Site: http://www.cfaitc.org

http://chroma.mbt.washington.edu/outreach/TRAITTREE.html

http://chroma.mbt.washington.edu/outreach/hand_on_science.html

Glencoe Life Science Textbook, copyright 1999

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Biology Institute

California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom (CFAITC), copyright 2001: http://www.cfaitc.org

BSCS and Videodiscovery, Inc., 1999

Bishop Museum/Pacific Science Center

The New York Times on the Web, 2001

http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEPC/WWC/1994/traits.html

http://ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/sci/cecsci/cecsci083.html

http://www.kumc.edu/gec/lessons.html

Student Work Samples

Beautiful Baby Lab

Student Sample #1

Student Sample #2